Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Gary (G0CUQ), who writes:
Hi Thomas,
I remember a while ago some posts relating to music with short wave/radio leanings (Wilco & Quindar come to mind).
I found a fairly new English group, The Random Earth Project, who have subtly slipped a numbers station in at the beginning of their track called ‘Airwaves’. It pops up later in the track too (a seven minute progressive rock epic!). I’ll leave a YouTube link here:
Quite a surprise to hear that, although I don’t know the origin of the station.
Thanks for bringing us the SWLing Post – it’s one of the first things I check online. It’s a go-to for me as a ham who hasn’t lost the SWL bug!
Cheers,
Gary G0CUQ
Thank you so much, Gary, for the tip about The Random Earth Project! I love how they’ve implemented numbers station audio.
Thank you for the kind comments about the SWLing Post, too. I truly appreciate that!
Audio from numbers stations is also used quite extensively (along with musical references to The Lincolnshire Poacher) in The Signal by the band The Mighty Handful from their Men In Stasis ii EP released last year … another prog track!
You can listen here – https://open.spotify.com/track/7m82dnYnQZlBBM9rkUjeO5?si=bb7330af691d4b33
If I’m not much mistaken, the station at the beginning is the so-called ‘Oblique’, an easy catch in my part of the world.